LAUREN QUIN – SALON REAL
2023-08-07“Salon Real” is the opening sequence to a series of knots. One inferred meaning of this phrase connotes the original Paris Salons and the reactionary Salon d’Automne. These traditional exhibition forums united and established a throughline for the canonical discourse forged by generations of artists, Fernand Léger and Marcel Duchamp among them, whose influences have elliptically swayed pictures composed by Quin.
Resisting a stable, fixed definition, the poetic word pairing conjured by the artist describes a method of determination through synchronicities. Self-aware as models for visual indulgence, the paintings—like the exhibition’s title—scavenge, pluck, and layer symbols, forms, mediums, and gestures from throughout art history. Like a back-logged inventory of visual culture, imagery, styles, and colors are reinvented, layered,
and combined to staggering effects.
Opposite – Solar Hole, 2023
Exhibition runs through to August 10th, 2023
Blum & Poe
1-14-34 Jingumae, Shibuya
150-0001 Tokyo
Japan
